Send anything you have to rethinkingwalking at gmail dot com!

As I mentioned in the delicious post by WCD and her friend, we all decided that using that post would be a great impetus to asking other women to document their own journeys.

As the conversation continued, we all decided that if we posted these pictures (along with a write up written by WCD), we could use this as an opportunity to ask other women to send in their own stories of (re)thinking walking. Whether it was pictures or words or video or music…documenting our experiences means, as WCD says, building a small community–a small community that knows that women of color taking up space together may not always be safe and beautiful and mean hair dancing in the sun…but it’s always revolution in the making.

What Jess and I would be looking for: any type of medium that can be posted through a blog format that expresses what you understand as your own journey. We’re looking for movement–how you define that is up to you (check out our (re)thinking walking files for starting ideas!).

And as Jess and I have both noted–don’t feel pressure to write up something earth shattering and stunning. A picture of you in your backyard with your kids is just as amazing and revealing and potentially movement creating as the three page long bfp reflection!!!

Finally, women of color, disabled women, gender non-conforming, trans women, immigrant women, and other marginalized women will take precedence in who gets posted when, or if a submission gets posted at all–but allies ARE ENCOURAGED to send something in as well. We *strongly* encourage any ally who sends something in to be aware of how her/his intersecting identities are connected to movement and other people/communities surrounding her/him.

The final decision on what to post will always rest with Jess and I (bfp).

Send anything you have to rethinkingwalking at gmail dot com!

en lucha,
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